The relation between the domains of information retrieval and knowledge organization in international journals

The objective of this research is to analyze the thematic of international scientific production published during the 2006 - 2015 period on Knowledge Organization and Information Retrieval indexed in Web of Science and Scopus databases. This study develops a qualitative and exploratory research of a corpus of 100 papers that establishes a relationship between Knowledge Organization and Information Retrieval. The study also analyses the papers that are part of the corpus and classifies them into three categories, using the dimensions of Knowledge Organization that are considered themes in the Brazilian Congress on Knowledge Organization and Representation organized by the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO): epistemological dimension, applied dimension, social and political dimension. We found that most of the scientific production is concentrated in the applied dimension, which can be explained by the applied characteristic of Information Retrieval. The epistemological dimension is the second most recurrent, and the social and political dimension has low incidence, which can be explained once the corpus is formed by the international scientific production and is not reflected in a dimension designed for a Brazilian Congress.

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The scientific production of a domain
determines its degree of development and
evolution.
The analysis of a domain is essential to
understand it, identify research trends and
contribute to the advancement of production
and scientific communication.
Research Context
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The objective of this research is to analyze the
themes of the international scientific literature
published between 2006 and 2015, about
Knowledge Organization and Information
Retrieval indexed in Web of Science and Scopus
databases.
Objective
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This analysis is proposed due to the authors' interest on the
scientific production in KO.
This research question arose when attending the course
Computational Models of Information Retrieval at the
Information Science Graduate Program at Universidade
Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP).
The analysis of the scientific production of a domain or the
relationship between domains allows its knowledge, its
construction and interdisciplinary, as Rendón Rojas (2008)
stated.
Motivations
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ANALYSIS
The second stage of the research consisted in analyzing the
content of the articles by reading the titles, abstracts and
keywords.
Categorization
Categories: the three sub-themes named dimensions of KO
proposed by ISKO in the Brazilian chapter congresses:
epistemological dimension, applied dimension, social and
political dimension.
Methodology
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The most representative journals:
Knowledge Organization (11)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (9)
Scope of the journals: both accepet publications on the issues
that are studied in this research as the main thematics.
Knowledge Organization is one of the é um dos principais
periódicos do domínio da OC, editado pela ISKO.
Journals
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Brazilian Journals:
Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação (4)
Transinformação (3)
Informação & Sociedade (2)
some of the most important Brazilian journals of Information
Science and they cover the thematics IR and KO.
They are classified in Qualis stratum A1 of CAPES (Coordination
for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel).
Journals
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The co-authorship reflects the generation and
exchange of new and current knowledge with
which greater authority from the
epistemological point of view is achieved,
highlighting the solution of common problems.
(BEAVER, 2004).
Type of Authorship
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The predominance of research in the applied
dimension can be explained by the characteristics of
the corpus, considering that IR is a process involving
application, tests, etc.
This does not mean that studies in the
epistemological dimension are not necessary, as
recognizing and discussing concepts, addressing the
history and methods of KO and IR are critical issues.
Applied Dimension
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Social and Political Dimension
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FIGURE 6: Social and Political Dimension
SOURCE: Research Data

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The low incidence of articles with this theme
can be explained because the corpus is formed
by international articles, and, the Social and
Political Dimension of KO was established as a
sub-theme of the ISKO-Brazil congress because
of a national yearning, since the first edition of
the congress.
Social and Political Dimension
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These results confirm the predominance of
research related to the applied dimension of
KO. This same result was obtained by Bufrem
(2015).
Research Tendencies: Simple Knowledge
Organization Systems (SKOS), automatic
indexing, semantic web e ontologies.
Conclusion
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Further Research
The analysis of the social network formed by the authors of
this corpus.
Citation analysis, co-citation and bibliographic coupling.
Identify epistemic communities.
Develop an similar analysis in national journal literature related
to IR and KO domains.
Encouraged research related to social and political dimensions.
Conclusion
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Regarding IR and KO in this research, the
analysis of the corpus allowed us to infer that
there is a close relationship between these two
domains in the international journal literature
indexed in WoS and Scopus databases and
published in the last ten years.
Conclusion
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The relation between the domains of information retrieval
and knowledge organization in international journals by
Paula Carina de Araújo, Edberto Ferneda e José Augusto
Chaves Guimarães is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attibution 4.0 International Licence.